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Contains Spoilers forImmortal Thor # 11!Marvel’smultiverse is vast and complicated , but a new Book of Revelation might just explicate why its new form feels so much more hierarchical and place than ever before . As one of the most secret Asgardians has just give away , a major Marvel hero had a sound impact on the multiverse when they once put it back together . It ’s this influence that now separate magic and science into distinct camp , even if the somebody responsible perhaps does n’t cognise it .
Immortal Thor#11 divulge that Marvel ’s new cosmic status quois a direct result of the multiverse being created by Reed Richards aka Mister Fantastic .
Immortal Thor#11 is written by Al Ewing , exemplify by Valentina Pinti , colored by Espen Grundet Jern and letter by VC ’s Joe Sabino .
At the destruction of 2015’sSecret Wars , the Marvel multiverse wasreborn into its current incarnation known as the Eighth Cosmosafter the demolition of its previous ego . It wasReed Richards who fight the reset buttonand returned thing to the manner they were … mostly . As Bragi , the Asgardian God of Poetry , explains inImmortal Thor#11 , this new multiverse stick to systematic hierarchies because it was make by Reed , a scientist who thinks logically and neatly .
Secret Wars ( 2015)is written by Jonathan Hickman , illustrated by Esad Ribić , colored by I ve Svorcina and lettered by Chris Eliopoulos and Clayton Cowles .
Marvel’s New Cosmic Order is Just That: Ordered
Reed Richards Created a Universe That Made Sense to Him
As seenin the recent seriesG.O.D.S. , the cosmic order of things in the Marvel Universe is in fact different from antecedently think . Science and magic are now cosmic opposites , with a organic structure representing each one : the Natural - society - Of - thing and The - Powers - That - Be , respectively . If Reed make this duality , and the others describe by Bragi , then it would give a great canyon reason why this view of the universe has been seen beforeG.O.D.S. , because the one-time multiverse did n’t work that elbow room . However , this does n’t mean that this order only amount into being when Reed renovate the multiverse chronologically . Instead , it has nowalwaysbeen the case .
G.O.D.S.is written by Jonathan Hickman , illustrate by Valerio Schiti , colored by Marte Gracia and letter by Travis Lanham
The important thing about the Eighth Cosmos , is that it ’s near monovular to its late incarnation on most levelsexceptin the realm of cosmic entity and their relationships to each other . AfterSecret Wars , the event leading to the upshot ’s multiversal destruction were reversed so they never pass , with only a few non - cosmic fictitious character likeReed and Doctor Strange memory what bechance . Series likeUltimates ( vol 3)explicitly explored how the multiversal fabric deepen , but the majority of books and role acted like nothing had ever happened .
Ultimates vol 3is write by Al Ewing , illustrated by Kenneth Rocafort , colored by Dan Brown and letter by Joe Sabino
How Honest is Our Narrator Being?
Mister Fantastic May Be Getting Blamed for Something That’s Not His Fault
That sound out , there ’s a chance that Bragi is exaggerating how much Mister Fantastic influenced this multiverse . After all , Bragiis the God of Poetry , and he seems a short displeased at how regularize thing are . He describes the shift from the Seventh Cosmos to the Eighth as a move from " verse to prose , " an inexplicit dig at his role as poet being made pretty redundant byLoki , God of Stories . Loki themselves suspect Bragi , andBragi , who is also revealed asImmortal Thor’snarrator in # 11,could be manipulating things for his own design , include decrying this Modern ordering .
If Bragi is being either dishonest or biased in his notification of multiversal structures , it would check right into one ofImmortal Thor’score theme : the telling of storey andhow hold a narrative can magically change the worldof the story itself . As the serial publication ’ teller , Bragi clearly has prescient and perhaps metatextual knowledge of the story . Is he attempt to mislead his kinsperson ? Or is he misleading the reader themselves ? As Thor and his family investigate the world ofG.O.D.S.inImmortal Thor#11 - 12 , it ’s worth keep an center on exactly how Bragi frames the story .
Does Reed Know What He’s Done to the Multiverse?
His Subconscious Could Have Created the New Multiversal Structure
One doubtfulness is whether Mister Fantastic had any conscious decisiveness about how the new multiverse would be ordered . While Reed had to actively work to make part of the multiverse , at least Earth and other major Marvel fixtures immediately popped back into existence with no obvious hindrance or change from Reed . It ’s entirely potential that Reed subconsciously ordered the multiverse into its Modern mannequin without ever realizing he ’d done it . However , if this were the case , why would it only be the abstractionist entities that changed when Reed rebuilt everything , and not the broader humankind ?
Reed Isn’t Exactly Unbiased When It Comes to Magic
Mister Fantastic Had to Be Forced Into Admitting Magic is Real
That said , this new order could reflect how Reed has always thought the multiverse operates . InFantastic Four vol 3 # 68 - 70andFantastic Four vol 1 # 500’sstory " Unthinkable , " Doctor Doom traps Mister Fantastic . Reed ’s only way of escape is to admit that magic is real , and that some things ca n’t be explained by skill .
rattling Four vol 3 # 68 - 70andFantastic Four vol 1 # 500are written by Mark Waid , pencil by Mike Wieringo , inked by Karl Kesel , colored by Paul Mounts and letter by Chris Eliopoulos and Rus Wooton
Reed Richards , before this storey , has never trust in magic , even when meet characters like Doctor Strange , instead seek to rationalize it as obscure scientific discipline . With this posture , it ’s no surprisal that Reed might still subconsciously put magic and science in mutually undivided categories .
Reed himself appears inG.O.D.S. # 1as a cameo alongside other scientist ally closer to The - Natural - monastic order - of - thing andshows no acknowledgment that this unexampled order may be his doing . However , G.O.D.S.isn’t a story about Reed , so it is n’t really an reading of whether he recognize what impact he ’s had on the multiversal social organization . It is , however , a potentially telltale second for Reed because it ’s a admonisher that he did n’t put himself , or his precious science , above magic in this Modern order . This shows him acknowledge magic ’s grandness to the universe , a far cry from his initial stance in " Unthinkable . "
Jonathan Hickman Laid the Groundwork for a Lot of Marvel’s Multiverse
One of the fun thing about place credit at Reed ’s feet for this new multiversal order is how it bind togetherthe history of writer Jonathan Hickman , who wrote bothSecret WarsandG.O.D.S. By tying together the two books , Immortal Thorwriter Al Ewing can piano retcon Hickman ’s contribution while at the same time pay off regard to him as well . One could even reason that Ewing is metatextually come to not to Reed through Bragi , but to Hickman himself , as Hickman is also ghost with dichotomies and parallel group , and is the one who " bring up " the Marvel Universe in 2015 withSecret Wars .
Hickman himself may already be involved in this retcon as well . Hickman and Ewing have work closely before , andG.O.D.S. , which is still uncompleted , has continually referenced the previous embodiment of the multiverse . This sugggests that Hickman is still thinking about how the transition from the Seventh to the Eighth Cosmos works . Ewing could have talked with Hickman before pen a Thor railroad tie - in toG.O.D.S. , and this new multiversal lore could partly be a result of their collaboration . As both series reveal more about the multiverse , who lie with what else may be revealed about the very textile ofMarvel’sreality ?
Immortal Thor#11is available now from Marvel Comics .
Immortal Thor#11 ( 2024 )
